Obamanomics

There's an 8,000 word article on Barrack Obama's economic policy agenda here, forthcoming in this Sunday's New York Times.

As anyone who has spent time with Obama knows, he likes experts, and his choice of advisers stems in part from his interest in empirical research... James Heckman, a Nobel laureate who critiqued the campaign’s education plan at (Austin) Goolsbee’s request, said, “I’ve never worked with a campaign that was more interested in what the research shows.”